fof /Weeding In

The Weeding In project is on hold until after the completion of the CathexiSpin project.

Action Items

• Arrange field trip to Hunters point

Initial Description

Weeding In: Translation as Environmental Practice verb [ trans. ] remove unwanted plants from (an area of ground or the plants cultivated in it) : I was weeding a flower bed.

• ( weed something out) remove something, esp. inferior or unwanted items or members from a group or collection : we must raise the level of research and weed out the poorest work.

Instead, we are weeding in/incorporating, introducing, overlapping

Weeding as a trope

Effecting a turn of the trope

Through an ecological translation lab,

Weeds as landscape

Gateway, and hinge, to

List potential sites (biosphere. AFB, Hudson River, Hunter's Point)

Invasive/native

Biological rubrics/methodologies and classification systems, renaming plants, enacting a reclassification both of the plants and the site

Transitioning between industrial and "wild."

Urban wilderness, urban wild

Affecting/Effecting current conditions of the site

Networked relations, we act as translators to facilitate linguistic turn

Arts of Translation

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